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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Editor extensibility
Message-ID: <348@talos.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 14:32:55 GMT
References: <4033@enea.se>
Reply-To: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA
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In article <4033@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Another thing which appeals to me is that TPU has much less of
>built-in functions; they are more of basic primitives, which you
>can use as you like. E.g. I have no use for the built-in move-by-
>word functions in Emacs, since I define a word differently. TPU
>doesn't have any word concept at all.

No version of Unipress Emacs that I have used has a built-in notion of
what consitutues a word.  It does have a default syntax table which
specifies word constituent characters, but these can easily be changed
on the fly, or via a per-user initialization file.

kyle jones   <kjones@talos.UUCP>   ...!uunet!talos!kjones